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...million Somalis are refugees. Two million need food. For most of these, malnutrition rates are beyond the U.N. threshold definition of an emergency. Around 400,000 refugees are in a single sprawling camp at Afgooye outside Mogadishu; 70,000 have arrived in the last month after fleeing the latest round of fighting in the capital. A further 275,000 have fled south to Kenya and live in three camps at Dadaab in the north of the country originally meant for 90,000; the U.N. High Commission for Refugees says 7,000 more Somalis also arrive there each month...
...Somalia would seem to be another case in point. After 18 years of war between rival clans, warlords and Islamists, the latest round in this Byzantine bloodbath pitches the Islamist government against marginally more extreme Islamist rebels to whom it was allied until last year. Not that the terms government and rebel really apply to Somalia. Both groups control little more than a few blocks of Mogadishu and a handful of small towns, and neither has much function - or often, it seems, ambition - aside from fighting the other. (Read: "In Somalia, Another Government Teetering...
...with the protein modeling computer program Pymol, or coming up with some harebrained scheme to entertain and distract his friends, they said. The aspiring oncologist passed away in early October at the age of 19, bringing an end to his four-and-a-half year battle with desmoplastic small round cell tumor, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Friends and family said that Friedman exuded brightness—both in his intellect and his personality. His optimism even in the face of a bleak prognosis was the first trait noted by all who spoke of him. Robert B. Schaaf...
...table. At the same April 14 meeting, Flores inquired into the level of involvement the Council would have on budget cuts.“I was trying very hard to prevent or change how that May 11 announcement happened,” she says, referencing the first round of budget cuts—including possible limits to shuttle service and the elimination of hot breakfast in upperclassman Houses during the week—which many students protested, saying the cuts disproportionately affected student life. “I raised serious concerns about this first phase of this process, and they...
...Board in cases of academic dishonesty, re-examining Harvard’s dismissal policy, and clarifying the definition of inappropriate collaboration in the handbook, Sundquist said.A STUDENT VOICE?The next step, many undergraduate proponents argue, is student participation in Ad Board proceedings, but there is little guarantee that this round of reforms will address the issue.Andrea R. Flores ’10, the current UC president, said she believes that having students on committee is “necessary.”“All of [the suggested changes] are important and will be necessary and helpful...